Adaptive project management

There’s a big difference between understanding project concepts and engaging in a real, complex, and unpredictable program full of risks, obstacles, and personalities. The business environment is faster paced, more volatile, and more uncertain than before, so our techniques for managing projects must be designed to quickly respond. Modern approaches to delivering new products must be fast and adaptable and must include the customer in the process.

Picking up where his Introduction to project management course leaves off, Rick Freedman walks you through the current state of project management, going beyond basic concepts to uncover the real challenges of managing projects in today’s turbulent and uncertain business environment. In this hands-on three-hour training course, you'll dig deeper into the ideas behind different project approaches and learn why (and in which cases) you should use one technique over another. Along the way, Rick reviews case studies of firms that have adapted their own versions of Agile or hybrid lifecycles, giving you a firsthand look at what works in the real world. You'll leave with the know-how to adopt the right project techniques for the project at hand and combine the best attributes of different approaches to develop your unique project method.

About your instructor

Rick Freedman, author of "The Agile Consultant", has experienced the agile transition from the inside. He has been working as an agile coach and trainer since the beginning of the agile movement. Rick has 30 years of experience as a strategic consultant, both as an employee of large corporate organizations like Citicorp and Dun & Bradstreet, and as a Principal Consultant for Cap Gemini, NEC, and Intel. As Worldwide Project Management Leader for Intel from 2001-2005, Rick evangelized, trained, and coached Intel project managers in the US, UK, China, India, Germany, and Australia. Since leaving Intel, Rick has consulted with clients such as Microsoft, HP, Motorola, NASA, BP, Marriott, Verizon, H&R Block, Blue Cross Blue Shield, The US Dept of the Treasury, The US Army, SEGA, Bank of NY, and The People's Republic of China. Rick is also the author of 'The IT Consultant', 'Building the IT Consulting Practice', and 'The eConsultant'. He lives in Lenexa, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, with his wife of 35 years and two spoiled golden retrievers.

Schedule

The timeframes are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing